cornerstone; main point; requirement; need; necessary; required
one person; being alone; being by oneself; being single; being unmarried; by oneself
(in Chinese mythology) beast which descends from the sky with a thunderbolt
no; nay; well; er; you're welcome; not at all
thing; object; one's things; possessions; things; something; quality
attachment; adhesion; tenacity; fixation; obsession
fellow; guy; thing; object; he; she
seems; I think; I guess; don't you agree?; I thought you'd say that!
to be loath to; to balk at (doing); to grudge (doing); to take (good) care of
mind; heart; spirit; the meaning of a phrase (riddle, etc.)
Excellent (grade); A; superiority; excellence; gentle; graceful
edge (of a knife or sword); prong (of an electrical plug)
to turn towards; to point
endorsing and questioning the preceding statement; lamenting reflections on the preceding statement
to permit; to allow; to forgive; to pardon; to exempt (someone) from; to remit; to acknowledge
weak; feeble; delicate; frail; helpless
unnecessary; not needed; not necessary
wind; breeze; manner; behaviour; cold; influenza
patriarch; head of a family
at a young age; while still young
seat; place; position; status; gathering; party; stand
long sword (esp. the tachi, worn on the hip edge down by samurai); large sword; straight single-edged Japanese sword (from the mid-Heian period or earlier); guandao; Chinese glaive
lightning; flash of lightning; lightning bolt
appearing ...; looking ...; way to ...; method of ...ing; form; style
certainly; of course; even if; no matter (who, what, when, where, why, how); without even; without so much as; at the (least, earliest, etc.)
another name; nickname; alias; synonym (taxonomy)
to hold (in one's hand); to take; to possess; to have; to maintain; to keep; to last
go that far; to that extent
honorific/polite/humble prefix; honorific suffix
safety; security; safely; without incident; good health; inaction
phantom; vision; illusion; extremely rare item
to entrust (e.g. a task) to another; to leave to; to passively leave to someone else's facilities; to leave to take its natural course; to continue (something) in a natural fashion (without particular aim); to rely fully on one's (full strength, great ability, long time taken) to get something done
good; excellent; sufficient; enough; profitable (deal, business offer, etc.); beneficial
after all; in the end; anyway; (cannot) possibly; (not) at all; (not) by any means
still; as yet; (not) yet; more; (more) still; at least
young; youthful; immature; green; low (number); small
as is; as it is; as things are; like this; this way; at this rate
time; hour; occasion; case; chance; opportunity
careless; stupid; thoughtless; heedless; unobservant; inadvertent